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Based on a comparison with Darth Bane, Plagueis should be 4-B. Bane's plan produced more powerful Sith Lords with each generation. Darth Bane was first but Plagueis was thirtieth. The gap between them is very huge.
In fact, Plagueis was nearly equal with his apprentice, Darth Sidious (TPM incarnation).
In addition, peak Plagueis is stronger than his younger self, which changed the climate of Naboo.
He also has galactic range of telepathy:
"And so he had stretched out—indeed, as if invisible, transubstantiated—to inform every being of his existence, and impact all of them: Muunoid or insectoid, secure or dispossessed, free or enslaved. A warrior waving a banner in triumph on a battlefield. A ghost infiltrating a dream. But ultimately to no end. The Force grew silent, as if in flight from him, and many of the animals in his laboratory succumbed to horrifying diseases."
Also. Sidious and Plagueis conduct a meditative ritual during which they wage etheric war with the Force and challenge its sovereignty, ultimately prevailing and shifting the balance to the Force toward the dark side.
"The question of whether he and Sidious had discovered something new or rediscovered something ancient was beside the point. All that mattered was that, almost a decade earlier, they had succeeded in willing the Force to shift and tip irrevocably to the dark side. Not a mere paradigm shift, but a tangible alteration that could be felt by anyone strong in the Force, and whether or not trained in the Sith or Jedi arts.
The shift had been the outcome of months of intense meditation, during which Plagueis and Sidious had sought to challenge the Force for sovereignty and suffuse the galaxy with the power of the dark side. Brazen and shameless, and at their own mortal peril, they had waged etheric war, anticipating that their own midi-chlorians, the Force's proxy army, might marshal to boil their blood or stop the beating of their hearts. Risen out of themselves, discorporate and as a single entity, they had brought the power of their will to bear, asserting their sovereignty over the Force. No counterforce had risen against them. In what amounted to a state of rapture they knew that the Force had yielded, as if some deity had been tipped from its throne. On the fulcrum they had fashioned, the light side had dipped and the dark side had ascended."
Plagueis and his apprentice broke the Force itself, spreading darkness throughout the galaxy. Since they are approximately equal, Plagueis did at least 50% of the work.
And this is despite the Jedi Order and a Force bubble that had prevented infiltration by the dark side.
Not a single Sith before Plagueis has ever demonstrated a similar level of power.
In fact, Plagueis was nearly equal with his apprentice, Darth Sidious (TPM incarnation).
In addition, peak Plagueis is stronger than his younger self, which changed the climate of Naboo.
He also has galactic range of telepathy:
"And so he had stretched out—indeed, as if invisible, transubstantiated—to inform every being of his existence, and impact all of them: Muunoid or insectoid, secure or dispossessed, free or enslaved. A warrior waving a banner in triumph on a battlefield. A ghost infiltrating a dream. But ultimately to no end. The Force grew silent, as if in flight from him, and many of the animals in his laboratory succumbed to horrifying diseases."
Also. Sidious and Plagueis conduct a meditative ritual during which they wage etheric war with the Force and challenge its sovereignty, ultimately prevailing and shifting the balance to the Force toward the dark side.
"The question of whether he and Sidious had discovered something new or rediscovered something ancient was beside the point. All that mattered was that, almost a decade earlier, they had succeeded in willing the Force to shift and tip irrevocably to the dark side. Not a mere paradigm shift, but a tangible alteration that could be felt by anyone strong in the Force, and whether or not trained in the Sith or Jedi arts.
The shift had been the outcome of months of intense meditation, during which Plagueis and Sidious had sought to challenge the Force for sovereignty and suffuse the galaxy with the power of the dark side. Brazen and shameless, and at their own mortal peril, they had waged etheric war, anticipating that their own midi-chlorians, the Force's proxy army, might marshal to boil their blood or stop the beating of their hearts. Risen out of themselves, discorporate and as a single entity, they had brought the power of their will to bear, asserting their sovereignty over the Force. No counterforce had risen against them. In what amounted to a state of rapture they knew that the Force had yielded, as if some deity had been tipped from its throne. On the fulcrum they had fashioned, the light side had dipped and the dark side had ascended."
Plagueis and his apprentice broke the Force itself, spreading darkness throughout the galaxy. Since they are approximately equal, Plagueis did at least 50% of the work.
And this is despite the Jedi Order and a Force bubble that had prevented infiltration by the dark side.
Not a single Sith before Plagueis has ever demonstrated a similar level of power.
